In medieval Denmark, people paid for more prestigious graves closer to the church, which was a sign of wealth and status. Researchers have examined hundreds of skeletons from these sites. They discovered that even people with stigmatized diseases such as leprosy were buried in these prestigious places. This finding was unexpected. Instead of excluding the sick, many communities seem to have treated them like everyone else. According to the title of the article, the Monty Python group made a mistake in depicting a medieval disease.